Laundry Collection (page 5)

Sculpture of the Laundress. Park Guell. By Antoni Gaudi (185
Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926). Catalan architect. Park Guell. The Laundry Room Portico. Sculpture of the Laundress. Barcelona. Spain

Cartoon, Complaining to the cook, WW1
Cartoon, Complaining to the cook. A group of soldiers throw their soup away in disgust -- the cook explains that hes had no previous experience of cooking. Date: 1917

Silhouette - Wash Day Tub
Silhouette - Woman working at the wash day tub. circa 1830

National Childrens Home, Harpenden - Laundry Work
Some of the older girls engaged in ironing and folding in the laundry at the National Childrens Home (NCH), Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Date: Date unknown

An unfrequented canal - Venice, Italy
An unfrequented canal in Venice, Italy. Date: 1916

German Timber Houses
Typical old timber-framed traditional houses in Germany, some with laundry hanging from the windows. Date: 1930s

Using a Mangle
Two women putting wet clothes through a mangle to wring them out before hanging them out to dry in the garden. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Scrubbing Board 1940S
A housewife, wearing black rubber gloves, uses a scrubbing board, soap and a metal tub to wash clothes. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Sorting Laundry
A young housewife sorts out a pile of laundry. Date: 1940s

Laundry of Savoy Hotel
Working in the laundry of the Savoy Hotel, London. Date: early 1930s

Goldsmith / Green Harbour
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Corner of Break-neck Stairs, Green Harbour Court, Old Bailey, where the Irish writer lived in 1758 Date: 1730 - 1774

Household / Laundry / Mangle
Mangle Date: Late 19th Century

Dryden / Washing Lambs / 50
A girl uses Persil washing powder to keep her lambs white - she then pegs them out to dry on the washing line! Date: 1930s

Shaftesbury Home, Ealing - Laundry
Shaftesbury Home, Ealing - girls wash and mangle clothes in the laundry. Date: circa 1910

Shaftesbury Home, Bisley - Bakery, Laundry and Garden Boys
Shaftesbury Home, Bisley - representatives of boys occupied in the homes bakery, laundry and garden departments. Date: 1890s

Page from Ironmonger Diary 1889
Two ads for Moorwood, Sons & Co. Comet, slow combustion stoves and Mathieson, Wilson & Co, ironfounders, Armley, Leeds. 1889

Paddington Street, West London. Date: circa 1905

Thor 30, folding elecrtic ironer 1929
Thor 30, folding elecrtic ironer, the operator (a woman) has merely to sit in a comfortable chair, turn a switch and guide the pieces through, electrically operated

Hull Sailors Orphan Homes - Laundry
The Sailors Orphan Homes, Hull, also known as Newland Homes, established in 1895 by The Port of Hull Society. Girls at work, ironing and folding, in the homes laundry. Date: circa 1907

Two cats on a washday greetings card
Two cats and doll on a washday greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Three girls doing the laundry on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Serving boy carries pile of folded napkins - Colmans Starch
A serving boy carrying a teetering pile of folded napkins, held in place due to the effectiveness of Colmans Starch. Date: 19th century

Duncan Place, Mobile, Alabama, USA
Duncan Place, at the foot of Government Street, Mobile, Alabama, USA. The statue is of Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes (1809-1877)

Woman at work in a kitchen, Mexico. Date: circa 1905

Nautical Terms Illustrated IV - Crossing the Line
A sailor flirts with a woman over her washing line drawn by Harold Earnshaw, artist husband of Mabel Lucie Attwell. Earnshaw was a successful artist who joined the Artists Rifles at the outbreak of

Workhouse Laundry
Women working in the laundry at an unidentified workhouse. Date: 1909

Spurgeons Orphanage, Stockwell - Laundry
Spurgeons Orphanage, Stockwell. Girls at work in the laundry, some ironing. Date: circa 1902

South Stoneham Workhouse Laundry
Women at work in the laundry of the South Stoneham Workhouse, Hampshire

German poster design, woman hanging out washing
German poster design, a Dutch woman hanging out washing. Date: circa 1910s

Laundress of Paris, early 19th century.. Handcolored copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis-Marie Lante from Tradeswomen of Paris, Paris, 1823

Woman in costume of Lisieux She wears a cotton
Woman in costume of Lisieux. She wears a cotton bonnet decorated with a ribbon.. Handcolored fashion plate illustration from Louis-Marie Lantes Costumes des femmes du Pays de Caux, 1827/1885

Laundry woman of fine linen at Rouen in a tall bavolet bonnet.. Handcolored fashion plate illustration from Louis-Marie Lantes Costumes des femmes du Pays de Caux, 1827/1885

Main Street, Blidworth, Mansfield, England
Main Street, Blidworth, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Sign Says Imperial Laundry Receiving Office. Date: 1917

Boy scouts washing clothes at camp, British Honduras
Boy scouts washing their clothes at Loyola Camp, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America. Date: 1951

Using a shell hole as a wash-tub, WW1
French peasant women on the Western Front display a keen sense of carrying on as they use a water-filled shell-hole measuring twenty-five feet in diameter

Drumcondra Magdalen Home, Dublin - Side View
Side view of the Drumcondra Magdalen (or Magdalene) Home, Dublin. The home was founded in 1858 as a girls reformatory but later became a laundry home for single mothers. Date: Date unknown

Drumcondra Magdalen Home, Dublin - Recreation Room
Recreation room at the Drumcondra Magdalen (or Magdalene) Home, Dublin. The home was founded in 1858 as a girls reformatory but later became a laundry home for single mothers. Date: Date unknown

Drumcondra Magdalen Home, Dublin - Hand Ironing Room
The hand-ironing at the Drumcondra Magdalen (or Magdalene) Home, Dublin. The home was founded in 1858 as a girls reformatory but later became a laundry home for single mothers. Date: Date unknown

Drumcondra Magdalen Home, Dublin - Penitents Choir
The Penitents Choir stalls at the Drumcondra Magdalen (or Magdalene) Home, Dublin. The home was founded in 1858 as a girls reformatory but later became a laundry home for single mothers

Drumcondra Magdalen Home, Dublin - Front Entrance
Front entrance of the Drumcondra Magdalen (or Magdalene) Home, Dublin. The home was founded in 1858 as a girls reformatory but later became a laundry home for single mothers. Date: Date unknown

Drumcondra Magdalen Home, Dublin - Dormitory
A dormitory at the Drumcondra Magdalen (or Magdalene) Home, Dublin. The home was founded in 1858 as a girls reformatory but later became a laundry home for single mothers. Date: Date unknown

Costumes Drying, Jubilee Hall
Costumes drying behind the Jubilee Hall during rehearsals of The Beggars Opera, Aldeburgh Festival 1962 Date: 1962

A woman chauffeur, WW1
A Miss Webber, the first motor cab driver to be trained and employed by a London cab company due to the shortage of male drivers

Advert for Hudsons Extract of Soap 1887
Troops of people at home troops of people in the Colonies and abroad, say Hudsons Extract of Soap is the best for all washing and cleaning. 1887

Women washing clothes in a lake, Italy. Date: late 19th century

Women washing clothes, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

People washing clothes, India. Date: circa 1890s

Washing clothes at a Dhobi Ghat, Calcutta, India
People washing clothes at a Dhobi Ghat, Calcutta (Kolkata), India. Date: circa 1890s

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